1518 Episodes

  1. The first Indian to win Miss World

    Published: 11/15/2019

  2. The Love Canal disaster

    Published: 11/14/2019

  3. The demolition of the Babri Masjid

    Published: 11/13/2019

  4. Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail

    Published: 11/12/2019

  5. Memories of Wilfred Owen

    Published: 11/11/2019

  6. The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall

    Published: 11/8/2019

  7. The Bhagalpur blindings

    Published: 11/7/2019

  8. Britain's secret propaganda war

    Published: 11/6/2019

  9. A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer

    Published: 11/5/2019

  10. Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation

    Published: 11/4/2019

  11. Saving the Great Barrier Reef

    Published: 11/1/2019

  12. 'Jane' - the underground abortion service

    Published: 10/31/2019

  13. The Algerians who fought with France

    Published: 10/30/2019

  14. The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors

    Published: 10/29/2019

  15. Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech

    Published: 10/28/2019

  16. The fall of the Berlin Wall

    Published: 10/25/2019

  17. The Leipzig demonstrations

    Published: 10/24/2019

  18. East German refugees in the Prague embassy

    Published: 10/23/2019

  19. The reburial of a Hungarian hero

    Published: 10/22/2019

  20. The legalisation of Solidarity

    Published: 10/21/2019

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